by Joe Rector | Aug 24, 2020 | Columnist, Rector
By Joe Rector My son Dallas has a lot of his grandmother’s DNA flowing through his veins. For the second year, he’s put out pepper plants in five-gallon buckets (he doesn’t have much yard at his condo). He’s babied those plants, and they’ve yielded hundreds of banana...
by Mark Nagi | Aug 24, 2020 | Columnist, Nagi
By Mark Nagi The 2019 college football season feels like it was another lifetime ago. So much had changed since the Vols went into the victory formation at the TaxSlayer Bowl. Over the past week or so we’ve seen college football conferences drop like flies. Led by...
by Tom Mattingly | Aug 24, 2020 | Columnist, Mattingly
By Tom Mattingly Knoxville Fulton High School’s Ron Widby did it all on the football field and the basketball court during his time at the University of Tennessee, but no two days were more hectic than in mid-December 1965. It was during the time football and...
by Steve Hunley | Aug 23, 2020 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Steve Hunley It Doesn’t Work? Really? Mike McMillan. East Knox County’s member of the Knox County Board of Education, wrote a letter to school administrators perhaps two months ago suggesting the school folks ought to look into technology available for sanitizing...
by Ray Hill | Aug 23, 2020 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
By Ray Hill It has been 100 years since Tennessee ratified the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which gave women the right to vote in our country. It seems appropriate to celebrate the occasion in these pages. Tennessee became the battleground state for the...
by design | Aug 17, 2020 | Columnist, Ferguson
By Dr. Jim Ferguson As my readers know I like words; not just to be pedantic (bookish), but pedagogical (educational), because I’m a teacher at heart. Previously I’ve noted that the word doctor derives from the Latin word docere, which means to teach. I teach medical...
